The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13
New England's Supremacy
But a Memory.
A NEW RACE IN THE WEST
Comparatively Few Men OF the New
States Natives OF the East
Some Startling Figures.

AOIOA az ACSSObby AL w oSAIh6
ton Territory. One of my comrade.
was bright, snappy railroad official
the other was a farmer. who cultivated
5000 acres of highly productive whea
land. | had been travelling through
/ the marvellous whest-growing regior
known as the Ralouse district, where
the established rules which contro
agricultural operations In the Missis-
sippi Valley are ignored, and where the
most productive land lies on top of the
hills, and l told my comrades what
had seen. l dwelt strongly on the fact
that had met but few men who were
from New England or from the north
western States in the region. When
asked the settlers with whom
had talked where they had
come from, they answered, from
Missouri, from Iowa, from Arkan
sas, from Indiana, from Tennessee,
from Illinois, from Kansas, from North
Carolina, and at long intervals one
would reply that he mad been raised in
one of the New England States. The
fact that New England was scantily rep
resented in the new States which are
being created in the west impressed me
strongly, and it troubled me strangely.
I said, as l looked inquiringly at my
comrades: Il dc not understand why
there are so few New England men in
this region" The railroad official
thrust his hand into the breast pocket of
his coat and drew forth an envelope,
which he handed me, say ng in expla-
nation:
Last December our company placed
an advertisement in the hands of an
advertising agency to publish in all
their newspapers. This envelope" he
tapped it with his index finger as he
spoke, contains the record of the an
swers we received during the first four
months of the year, and from what
State they were sent. Readsthe record
and You will then understand why you
do not meet New England men in the
west"
thrust the envelope into the breast
pocket OF my coat. That night, after
we had separat d, read the list, and it
sharply indicated that the railroad
official had spoken truthfully. But the
list also indicated that the southern
people who lived in the old slave States
have ceased to emigrate. But l knew
that the southern people were emigrat
ing westward in enormous numbers,
and this knowledge made me doubt the
correctness Of the deductions the rail
road official had drawn from his list of
letters of inquiry received. So laid it
away until | could have access to that
portion of the tenth census which re
iates to the nativity of the population
of the different States. The volume lies
open before me as | write.
group the New England States and
the states OF New York, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Delaware for conven-
fence of Illustration and as typical of
the northeast. This group contained
in 1880. Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michi-
and Iowa having in 1880 population
of ~ 772. S31 native born whites, l group
as States settled in part, and almost
and estern Wstates, and use the group
as typical of western STATES, to Illus
trate my meaning.
~ Wiz l. C NONoA Eol1IOO4 Va
letters of inquiry that were received at
the railroad office in answer to the ad-
vertisement, which was published in
many hundred newspapers, was 4;402.
OF this MT mber 161 were sent from New
England, II from New Jersey and Del
aware, while New York and Penusyl-
vania sent 493, four-tifths of which
were from the western portions of
those States. The total NUM- Der of let
tiers sent from the first group of
States was oil. During the same time
1854 letters were received from people
residing in the western group of
States. It is significant fact that more
letters of inquiry were received from
any one State which | have placed in
the second group than were received
from all New England. And it is alss
significant, and indicative of the
strength of the migratory instinct of
the western people, that more letters of
inquiry were received from the far west
tern States, in proportion to their
population, than from any other por-
ton of the Union. For instance, 400
letters were received from Iowa,
comparatively new State, and which
contained 353, 046 white people
in 1880, and 163 were re-
ceived from Indiana, an older
State. which had a white population
of l, 794 ,764 in 1880. Illinois, which had
:, 448,172 native white population in 1880,
sent 800 letters, whileIOhio. having D.
723 ,582 native white population, sent
254 letters. Kansas, one OF the young
est States, and having native white
OF $40 2lI. sent 500 letters,
and Missouri, slow. unprogressive Mis-
souri,, the land of Pixies. whose name
causes Boston noses TO cock with con-
375 letters, or PA more
than New England.
In the region included in the second
group of States food is plentiful and
cheap. The people are not over-civii-
lied Large families are raised. 1t is
to-day the great breeding ground of
men. The migratory in
stinct is strong IN the people. They are
venturesome and courageous, and viii
ing to endure hardship. These people !
are western bred, and are ives stern in F!
thought and feeling in every fiber of
their bodies. If the migratory instinct
has become weak in the Puritan stock /
which remained III New England the (
of the population Of the new
States which lie beVODd the MiS~Out ri .